Clinch Mountain is a mountain ridge in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Virginia, lying in the ridge-and-valley section of the Appalachian Mountains. From its southern terminus at Kitts Point, which lies at the intersection of Knox, Union and Grainger counties near Blaine, Tennessee, it runs in a generally east-northeasterly direction to Garden Mountain near Burke's Garden, Virginia. It separates the Clinch River basin to the north and the Holston River basin to the south.
U.S. Route 25 on Clinch Mountain, c. 2008
Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands division. The physiographic province is divided into three sections: the Hudson Valley, the Central, and the Tennessee.
Valley and Ridge province as part of the Appalachian Highlands division, based on the U.S. Geological Survery physiographic classification
Valley and Ridge province of the Appalachian Highlands and its three physiographic sections: the Hudson, the Central, and the Tennessee Rivers
An aerial view of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, showing (from center to right): Wills, Evitts, and Tussey Mountains in December 2006
Ridges and valleys near Norton, Virginia in Wise County, Virginia